Courtesy Captain Sean Smith of the Hillsdale, NJ Fire Department. Matthew Buesser rescues a baby after the family’s home was hit by floods Monday. "It hasn’t flooded this bad in a while," he said. In Connecticut, the Danbury E mergency M anagement Office had urged people to avoid flooded roads in the city, where there were reports of water rescues and vehicles stuck in water. Part of Boston's Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s tower building exterior also sustained damage. The city’s emergency management office had also warned of “imminent” flash flooding in Manhattan and the Bronx and warned locals to avoid basements and low-lying areas.Īt one point in the day, more than 10,000 people in New York City were without power because of the storm, and there were 388 reports of downed trees across the city, the city's Emergency Management Office said.Ĭon Edison crews restored power to a vast majority of those customers by late afternoon, with fewer than 2,000 homes and businesses in the dark by 5 p.m. In New York City, a travel advisory was in effect because of flooding conditions on roads, power outages and high winds on bridges. Over a 24-hour span, the lower Hudson Valley and parts of northeast New Jersey recorded nearly 6 inches of rain, according to the weather service in New York. Paterson Public Schools canceled classes Tuesday because of the emergency and area flooding. In Paterson, New Jersey, Mayor André Sayegh had declared a state of emergency amid street flooding and the possibility the Passaic River could overflow. South Carolina also set a record for greatest storm surge from a nontropical system with a high tide at almost 10 feet. Charleston set a daily record Sunday with 3.86 inches of rainfall, and Gainesville, Florida, reported more than 7 inches. The same storm system battered Florida and the Carolinas with strong winds and torrential rain over the weekend. AP NurPhoto Providence Journal NY Daily News Providence Journal Wind and rain in Boston, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York City and Pennsylvania. “The associated heavy rain will create mainly localized areas of flash flooding, with urban areas, roads and small streams the most vulnerable,” the weather service said. In Cohasset, Massachusetts, a mother and her infant survived with minor injuries after a branch hit the vehicle they were in on Monday morning, Cohasset police said in a statement.Ī slight risk of excessive rainfall over parts of New England remained through Tuesday, even as the storm exited the United States en route to Canada and the North Atlantic, National Weather Service forecasters said. The third person along with the fourth occupant who was still inside the vehicle are missing, Maine State Police said. Three people were able to get out, and two of them were rescued. The driver tried to turn around "when the vehicle got swept into rising flood waters," according to police. Two people in Mexico, Maine, are missing after a vehicle with four occupants tried to cross the Red Bridge into Rumford Monday evening, state police said. Two other deaths were confirmed: a man in Fairfield, Maine, who was killed while cleaning up during the storm, and 76-year-old MaryAnn Hyland in Greene County, New York, who died after her vehicle was swept away by floodwaters.
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